Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Venezuela's 4,200,000 people, 90% live close to the Caribbean coast. They prefer the mild climate, the cities' culture and the wealth from oil to a frontiersman's life in the rough & tough interior. As a result, the winning of Venezuela's West (actually its South) is still a century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier...
...Wallace attacks Administration policy, without proposing a particular alternative, he can appeal to all those who share his disapproval of the course currently being followed by the government. Once he offers a detailed program of his own, he will retain the support only of those who happen to prefer exactly the same policy. Mr. Wallace should not be too severely censured for adopting the same technique being used by Taft, Dewey, Stassen,and indeed every Presidential aspirant...
Perhaps the screen-theater has finally discovered, as the legitimate theater did a century ago, that audiences eventually sicken of the modern romance and prefer something a bit more tangible and certainly more useful...
...those who don't like to browse through the latest Italian periodicals but still prefer the Latin touch, there are three record machines with which to catch up on the latest cafe lyric and singers. One of the machines is even equipped with carphones for those personal discs...
...consider the so-called "bonanza" of some $200,000,000 to be doing all right by us. We prefer lower prices, adequate housing, a VA free of politics, an FEPC, an increased minimum wage, and a guaranteed annual wage...